SB 6562 - DIGEST

Provides that urban storm water runoff shall be required to reduce the discharge of pollutants to the maximum extent practicable, including management practices, control techniques, and system design and engineering methods, and such other provisions as the administrator of the federal environmental protection agency, under the guidance of the federal environmental protection agency's storm water regulations, shall determine appropriate for the control of such pollutants.

Provides that, for the purposes of urban storm water runoff, it shall be unlawful for any person to throw, drain, run, or otherwise discharge into any of the waters of this state, or to cause, permit, or suffer to be thrown, run, drained, allowed to seep or otherwise discharged into such waters any organic or inorganic matter that shall cause or tend to cause pollution of such waters according to the provisions of the federal environmental protection agency's storm water regulations, and the determination of the administrator of the federal environmental protection agency under the guidance of those regulations.